Notes, summaries, assignments, exams, and problems for Social sciences

A person might be ill in one respect but well or healthy in others, it means that illness and health there are not opposite, so illness is not a lack of health and being healthy does not mean a person is well in all respects (psychologically and physically). WHO defines health like a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. In the last 60 years, psychologists use the Disease Model, making miserable people less miserable. However one of the challenges of psychology nowadays is to discover how to promote health to get better people’s lives, it calls positive psychology. So the aim of this essay is to know how to promote health.

Martin Seligman proposes different techniques,... Continue reading "Promoting Health: Positive Actions and Behavior Change" »

Smart cities optimize the use of technology in the design and operation of infrastructure and buildings in a way that meets the current and future needs of their citizens.

There are few operating examples of smart cities across the world.

There is a need to combine integrated 'layers of smartness' that embrace not just resource efficiency but the promotion of good health, economic stability, a sense of shared community, and an ability to adapt to future challenges.

5G technology means evolving the concept of wireless connectivity to enable new ways of defining performance monitoring and assurance, as well as the quality of service. It is believed that 5G tech will be present in different sectors of daily human life such as finance, agriculture,... Continue reading "Smart Cities and the Impact of 5G Technology" »

Historical Development of Literary Theory

Literary Science vs. Literary Studies

• Restrictiveness
• A search for models, patterns, and schemes in the literary work
• Repetitiveness
• Making theory firmer, more coherent
• Borrowing from linguistics
• (For example, Structuralists in the mid 20th century)

Interpretation in Literary Theory

Monistic Systems

• Psychoanalysis (relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes)
• Hermeneutics (holy texts)
• Phenomenology (experienced

Democracy

A democracy is a political system that empowers individuals to participate in the governing process. There are two primary types of democracies:

Direct Democracy

In a direct democracy, citizens directly participate in making laws and governing. Ancient Athens serves as a historical example, where citizens could attend assemblies and directly influence decision-making.

Representative Democracy

Representative democracies involve citizens electing representatives who make laws on their behalf. Spain and the United States exemplify this system, where citizens vote for legislators who then enact legislation. In the US, even the president is chosen by electors representing the citizens' wishes.

Other forms of democracy include:

• Deliberative Democracy:

Sociolinguistics

Monolingual

A monolingual community is a community where there is only

one dominant language which used to cover all society

domains.

Multilingual

A multilingual community is one where there are more than

one dominant language to communicate with.

Formality scale

This scale helps assessing the influence of social setting or type

of interaction on language choice.

Ethnicity

Relating to large groups of people classed according to

common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural

origin or background, i.E. Ethnic minority.

Social factors

1 The participant: who is speaking and to who

2 The setting or social context of the interaction.

3 The topic: what is being talked about?

4 The function: why are they talking?

Social dimensions

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Practical Questions

Propose flexible methods for learning operations based on the properties of numbers and compare them with standard algorithms. Analyze children's productions and strategies. Propose/analyze "racons" to work on division, justifying them from mathematical, educational, and curricular perspectives.

Division Corner

Through the drawing of flower petals, we'll distribute them in equal parts without any remainders. Last question: How many petals does each flower have? Is that the only possible solution? (Materials: worksheet with flowers printed or paper to draw, paper cut-outs of the petals)

Solving

24 petals = 6 flowers of 4. They do one, then the next, and then the next = commutative property.

Parts of Each Activity

• Name
• Description
• SC
• Structures
• Metaphors
• Properties
• Representations
• Re/

Basic Concepts

Imagism

Imagism is considered the first important school in modernist poetry written in English. It rejected didacticism—poetry that tried to teach something—oversentimentalism, artificiality of diction (pomposity), and the constraints of meter and stanza. It aspired to less didacticism; morality was not stated; fewer feelings and more intellectualism; plainer language, closer to everyday diction; and free rhythm, meters, and stanzas.

The Lost Generation

The Lost Generation is a group of American writers who lived through World War I. They were lost in the sense that their inherited values were no longer relevant in the post-war world and because of their spiritual alienation. They did not feel that they belonged to the US or anywhere else;... Continue reading "Exploring Modernist Poetry: Imagism and The Lost Generation" »

Determinants of Health

Social Determinants and Health and Disease

Influencing Social Determinants

The way of life and the health, healthy life styles

Determinants of Health:

• Factors which, combined together, affect the health of individuals and communities → whether people are healthy or not, is determined by their circumstances and environment
• E.g. as where we live, the state of our environment, genetics, our income and education level, and our relationships with friends and family
• Note: the more commonly considered factors such as access and use of health care services often have less of an impact

The determinants of health generally include:

• The social and economic environment
• The physical environment
• The person’s individual characteristics and

SET 2B) Macro Environmental Analysis

Demographic Environment: Factors relating to population, such as size, growth rate, age distribution, religious composition, and literacy levels, and aspects like composition of workforce, household patterns, regional characteristics, population shifts, etc., need to be studied as they are all part of the demographic environment.

Economic Environment: The economic environment determines the strength and size of the market. The purchasing power in an economy depends on current income, prices, savings, circulation of money, debt, and credit availability.

Government Environment: Business is highly guided and controlled by government policies. Hence, the type of government running a country is a powerful influence... Continue reading "Macro Environmental Analysis: Factors Affecting Business and Marketing" »